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Israeli elections 2022: The tired R word and the elephant Arab Islamist racism, supremacy, fascism in the area Take a look at Zehava Galon Mererz, total defeat. Her/Meretz's constant R ("racism") word throwing around isn't just making people tired, but draws more attention to the real dangerous bigotry in the area: Arab Islamist leadership, not just Hamas and Palestinian Authority media, Mosque sermons but inside Israel, with its Arab MKs and preachers, especially before (like the Lod grand mosque leader), during, after 2021 anti-Jewish racial riots and the sick glorification of Islamic butchers as supposed heroes. Or in its Islamist...

BEIRUT – The Syrian regime is arming and training Syrian women to fight for President Bashar al-Assad, putting it out in front of the Pentagon when it comes to sending women to the front lines. A video posted on Russia Today’s Arabic channel from the central city of Homs shows dozens of women in combat fatigues marching around a training ground carrying Kalashnikovs, performing drills and chanting slogans in support of Assad. “Be prepared Syria. Stand up Assad,” they shout. “With our blood and our soul we protect you Bashar.” The trainer explains that the women are trained to use...

Despite its ostensible position as one of the West's key allies in fighting Islamic terror, it turns out, via Wikileaks, that Saudi Arabia is the source of the lion's share of funding for the world's worst terror groups – including Al Qaeda, the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hamas, and others. Much of the rest of the money these organizations get comes from other Gulf states, including Qatar and Kuwait. Saudi Arabia, along with other Gulf states, has expressed very little interest in changing the situation. The information came to light in the latest round of documents released Sunday by Wikileaks. In their...

U.S. boosts Iraq force; allies pare down WILLIAM J. KOLE Associated Press VIENNA, Austria - The Italians have left, and the Slovaks are about to. Britons want to start getting out, and so do Danes and South Koreans. President Bush's plan to send 21,500 more troops into Iraq has not inspired America's coalition partners to follow suit. Washington's top war partners - London and Seoul - are looking to draw down their forces, and they are not alone. U.S. forces in Iraq, which now number 132,000 and would swell to 153,500 under Bush's strategy, are supported by 15,857 mostly non-combat...

The New York Times came under heavy fire yesterday for disclosing a secret program that tracks terror financing - with a top Treasury Department official calling the leak "very damaging," and an influential Republican labeling the disclosure "treason." Criticism of a June 23 front-page story on the secret program, which gives the Bush administration access to a huge database of international financial transactions, intensified at a hearing yesterday of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. "I think, frankly, it's treason," fumed Rep. Michael Oxley (R-Ohio), chairman of the Financial Services Committee. "Nobody is happier about these revelations...

Last Thursday, Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, had a chance to appease his growing chorus of critics. He failed. The crowd for the speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., expected the DNI to mark the end of his first year in office by regaling listeners with dazzling stories of cloak-and-dagger successes on the battlefields of Iraq, or in the shadows of the War on Terror. Instead, he lulled them to sleep with fusty tales of management and bureaucratic triumph. The best Negroponte could muster was a detail-less anecdote about how he, in his role as the...

PRAGUE- The first group of Czech reconnaissance troops, who left the military air base in Prerov, north Moravia, for Afghanistan on Thursday under conditions of top secrecy, are already there, Defence Ministry spokesman Ladislav Sticha told Nova television. "I can confirm that Czech soldiers assigned for the Enduring Freedom operation have already arrived at the place of the operation and are fulfilling tasks there," Sticha said on Nova. The soldiers, the first combat forces deployed by the Czech military since World War Two, are to assist the American-led Operation Enduring Freedom in searching the Afghan mountains for members of the...

War is Heller. It is also Tolstoy, Owen, Vonnegut and Hemingway, among many others. But according to the Pentagon, war — at least the impending war in Iraq — is Shakespeare, the 5th-century BC Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu and two modern bestsellers about heroism and wartime correspondence. Before Christmas the US Defence Department began distributing free, pocket-sized copies of these books to its troops, to ensure that soldiers are improving their minds while removing Saddam. More than 100,000 copies have been given away so far. The project, set up by a group of publishers with charitable support and Pentagon...